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Posted on 03/15/2013 8:40:37 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
The key bit comes at 2:00 of the video below. We all knew McCain was taking a lot of heat politically for dumping on Paul after his filibuster but I never would have guessed it was enough to squeeze an apology out of him. Good lord. How many times in his life, do you suppose, has Maverick apologized to a libertarian? Either he’s planning to run again for Senate in 2016 and wants to hedge his bets against a Paulian primary uprising in Arizona or he’s come to his senses and realized that his nastiness is doing the interventionist cause more harm than good. Either way, it’s time for a tactical retreat.
By the way, am I misunderstanding or does he seem to think Ted Cruz, like Paul, is some sort of isolationist? I’m … not sure why. There was no one in the Senate, McCain included, who was tougher on Chuck Hagel than Cruz. When the Washington Free Beacon asked him to explain, Cruz said it’s because Hagel “has repeatedly been soft on our enemies.” Paleocons have also noticed that Cruz, despite often being lumped in with Paul on foreign policy, sounds plenty hawkish on Iran. Maverick’s likely concluded that because Cruz and Paul both speak frequently about the tea party and the Constitution and because Cruz was, after all, Paul’s wingman during the drone filibuster that they’re simpatico on foreign policy, but I suspect that’s untrue. In fact, Cruz and Paul seem to me to represent the two sides of the tea-party coin. From the beginning, Ron Paul fans have insisted that he’s the “godfather” of the movement; there are certainly tea partiers, especially the younger set, who are doctrinaire libertarians and whom Rand is trying to mobilize. But there’s another wing, which skews a bit older, that’s composed of more traditional conservatives — hawkish, concerned about “values” — who are disaffected with the GOP leadership’s squishiness and looking to rebrand themselves. The two wings overlap on spending, the core tea-party concern, and on stricter observance of constitutional limits on government, but they diverge on social issues and on foreign policy. Cruz was an ally of Paul’s during the drone debate because of that constitutional overlap, and of course because it was a chance to rebuke Obama. If a bill hit the floor tomorrow authorizing military action against Iran, though, I’m a lot less confident than Maverick that Cruz would end up on Paul’s side rather than on McCain’s and Rubio’s. We’ll find out…
I’m still waiting for him to apologize for running for president.
Now apologize to America for being an old douchebag....
If this old shyster is the best the voters of AZ can send to the U.S. Senate to represent them, they ought to be horsewhipped.
Does the magnitude of McCain’s apology match his attack magnitude? Until the answer is clearly “YES!” I suspect that McCain’s apology was just a PC statement in the lower “just kidding” category.
Hence, there will be no fresh start, no blurring of the sharp contrast between McCain’s ‘My King, right or wrong’ stance on the US Senate floor and the Republican and Democrat Senators who implemented a rare Check and Balance Filibuster against B. Hussein Obama.
McCain chose to do what all good Royalists or Monarchists have always done: showcase their unwavering public support to THE KING.
20 % of our forefathers were Royalists in our Revolutionary War.
Kings easily become tyrants with increased power.
McCain chose to never, ever doubt that his King Obama is now, or ever could become a tyrant.
McCain does not understand what Constitutional Checks and Balances are meant to do. I seriously doubt that he ever will.
McCain had done the GOP a great favor by starkly showing that the Monarchists in the GOP are really Tyrant B. Hussein Obama’s best friends.
Let the purge of the GOP Elite Monarchists begin !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Maybe McCain took some of his meds and had a moment of clarity...
In one bit of candor, McCain mentioned difficulty hearing or perhaps seeing and wiped his hand across his face to remove the moss Senator Paul mentioned
Really funny when you think that he was accusing them of violating senate rules. typical libtard in my view!
Apology not accepted.
No one can stick to their guns anymore.
Idiots say things and change stance in 24 to 48 hr cycles.
Politicians will soon have a guide book from the press of what is sustainable and what is not!
Hey sometimes we need wacko birds!
Who is wacko now JohnBoy?
:-)
These crusty, rusty oldsters had best listen to modern American voters about constitutional freedom and stop the global socialist/corporate politically correct b.s./war on America and it’s freedom. That goes for McStupid, his girlfriend, Lindsey and the stinky corpse of Feinstein.
We need to turn Lindsey out of office. Palin rescued McStupid for six years. He needs to be put on the back bench.
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